Vasco Yasenov
12/17/2021

Replication package for "The labor market effects of Mexican repatriations: Longitudinal evidence from the 1930s" by Lee et al. published by the Journal of Public Economics.

We are not allowed to share the main data source used in the paper - the linked individuals data from the 1930 and 1940 Census files. With this in mind, this replication package contains:

(i) some aggregate county level data from the 1930 and 1940 IPUMS Census files,
(ii) county level data from Fishback et al. (2005),
(iii) Stata code to clean both the aggregate level as well as the individual level data.
(iv) Stata code to reproduce all results in the main part of the paper. 

Here is a brief description of each do file:

1.clean_fishback - loads and cleans the data from Fishback et al. (2005)
2.fishback_labels - variable labels for the data from Fishback et al. (2005)
3.clean_agg_data - creates the aggregate level data used in all regressions by combining all variables together
4.clean_ind_data - creates the individual level data used in all regressions
5.map - creates Figure 1
6.sum_stats - summary statistics (Table 2)
7.reg_1st_stage - first stage results (Table 3)
8.reg_pre_trends - IV falsification tests (Table 4)
9.reg_aggr - regressions with aggregate county-level data (Table 5 and Figure 2)
10.reg_main - main results (Tables 6-8)
11.reg_by_skill - all regression when splitting the sample by high/low skill workers (Table 9)
12.reg_by_rural - all regression when splitting the sample by rural/urban workers (Table 10)

Lastly, the code_agg_data folder contains the code which creates the aggregate level variables from the Census data

References:

Fishback, Price V, William C Horrace, and Shawn Kantor, “Did New Deal grant programs stimulate local economies? A study of Federal grants and retail sales during the Great Depression,” The Journal of Economic History, 2005, 65 (1), 36–71.